Tell us about the offbeat people you have had in your congregation (page 2)

Mattieu

During a Sunday w/t study article on "Masturbation" a single brother in his mid twenties put his hand up (in the air) and said how much this article has helped him overcum his addiction to masturbation!!!! Needless to say, no-one wanted to touch the microphone after he handed it back.... We went back to his apartment after the meeting with a CSI blue UV torch, man that guy wasnt joking when he said he was addickted!

We also had an rv come to the hall who suffered from epilepsy, he kept on having seizures on a Tuesday night at the hall and I mean every Tuesday night. It got to the point where all us attendents knew the paremedics on a first name basis. An elder asks this r/v why he is having seizures only a Tuesday night, the r/v said 'the demons tell me not to take my medication on a Tuesday"

I have lots more loony tune stories, though will be identified too easily if I keep going!

Stay sane, Mattieu.

loosie

Her child ,well into grade school, communicated only in barn yard noises.

We went back to his apartment after the meeting with a CSI blue UV torch, man that guy wasnt joking when he said he was addickted!

OMG too funny.

oompa

u guys know i am an idiot...at times anyway......but the first/worst was when this nutty old sis with a 179 IQ tried to give me a long island home she owned when i was a teen.....her hub was not a dub and an irs dodger and a nut too........and she wanted to get rid of a water front home for some fear of the irs!!!!!!!!!........i saw the pics of this nice home but did not take it.........idiot.........oompa

norastaken

There was an old couple that I would be introduced to every assembly by my parents. My parents LOVED them. The woman was a cancer patient and would put darts on her head like an alien, like antenna. She would pretend to be a space alien in front of all the children. They were strange!! Both of them claimed to be of the annointed. (Puyallup District Assembly, WA)

Wasanelder Once

There was one couple straight out of the back hills of Missouri. He would shove his false teeth forward out of his mouth and chatter them to make a sound like a horse trotting. You never wanted to shake his hand because it was forever in his pants fondling his testicles. Her hair always looked as if she'd just been in a hurricane and she wore ankle high stockings with a moo moo and fur lined hiking boots. W.Once

gubberningbody

jeff, we got a number who moved in from Houma, La... This other brother couldn't say "bound volumes", it was always "brown volumes" and another said "we'll be studying the Suicide book" this week... (Survival...that green book)

What was cool about the congregation was that no one seemed to care what bethel was up to... People didn't bother looking things up, they've just discuss it and if something seemed reasonable then we'd do it....

JeffT

Norastaken: when was that going on in Puyallup? We went there 1983-1988 (that was the year we left) I don't remember her.

In Pullman during the seventies we had one older brother who said "Um" about every other word. He was a nice guy but a bit off. Although zealoous about field circus etc he wasn't given much responsibility, I don't think the elders thought to much of him. One time the question was asked from the platform "why do we go out in field service?" His answer was "to save our necks."

Steve_C

I remember a middle-aged married couple in our congo from when I was a kid/teen. They were both extremely intelligent (I believe they both held PhDs) and could always be counted on to answer the "deeper" questions at the meetings.

Anyway, the offbeat part is that the wife would continuously knit or crochet during the meetings and book study, or while in the car during field service (but not while at the door, though that would have been hilarious). I never remember seeing her on the TM school, I'm guessing because she wouldn't have been allowed to take her needles up on stage.

donny

The strangest person in my congregation was this one young brother who was a bit nerdy looking (wore big black framed glasses and wore black tennis shoes sprayed with a plactic coating) and a bit eccentric. I went out in service with hime one day and we stopped by his home for a soda break.

He showed me his copies of National Geographic and a few other nature based magazines and all of them featured pictures of different native peoples in varying stages of undress. He said this was a legal version of Playboy! He pointed at one pic and said "this Congolian woman is really hot." I didn't know how to reply so I just said "well I'm sure she is since she lives so close to the equator."

He also said that the song "Walk of Life" by Dire Straits was about field service.

Don

Scarred for life

Seriously, don't all of you think that JWs have more than their share of weird, offbeat people? They seem to be attracted to something in the WBTS. Don't you see it now that you're out?

Tell us about the offbeat people you have had in your congregation

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